ELISABETH A. BACUS AND LISA J. LUCERO (eds) 1999. Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 9. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, Forthcoming.

Three chapters in this volume focus on Southeast Asia: Jane Allen's "Managing a Tropical Environment: State Development in Early Historical-Era Kedah, Malaysia;" Elisabeth Bacus's "Prestige and Potency: Political Economies of Protohistoric Visayan Polities;" and John Miksic's "Water, Urbanization, and Disease in Early Indonesia."

ROGER BLENCH AND MATTHEW SPRIGGS (eds) 1999 Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts: Building Connections. London: Routledge.

This volume is the third part of a four-part survey of innovative results emerging from the fusion of archaeology and historical linguistics. The basic data of archaeology are artefacts, pre-eminently pottery, but also settlement sites and other types of material culture. Archaeology and Language III, Artefacts, Languages and Texts represents groundbreaking work in interpreting the results from archaeology in terms of language distribution and change, thereby complementing the other volumes in this sequence.

Selection of chapter titles: "Early Oceanic architectural forms and settlement patterns:

linguistic, archaeological and ethnological perspectives" by R. Green and A. Pawley; "Going to pots: fine tuning the prehistory of Mailu Island, southeast Papua New Guinea" by T. Dutton; "Linguistics versus archaeology: early Austronesian terms for metals" by R. Blust; "The dispersal of Austronesian boat forms in the Indian Ocean" by W. Mahdi; "The archaeology of knowledge concerning Austronesian influences in the Western Indian Ocean" by C. Allibert.

DAVID BULBECK AND B. PRASETYO 1999. The Origins of Complex Society in South Sulawesi (OXIS). Canberra, ACT. A.N.U.

D. BYRNE 1999. The Nation, the Elite and Southeast Asian Antiquities with Special Reference to Thailand. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 3(3): 145-53

IAN GLOVER 1999. Southeast Asia before Civilization and the Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia. Both in The Times History of the World., R. Overy (ed.), London: Harper Collins.

1999. Leting the past serve the present - some contemporary uses of archaeology in Viet Nam. Antiquity 73 (281): 594-602

CHAEAM KAEWKLAI 1999. Inscription on Ancient Stone Temple of Tamuenthom. The Silpakorn journal Vol. 4 No. 2 (March-April).

KUNLAYANEE KITCHOTPRASERT 1999. Bronze from archaeological Site at Ban Don Thongchai. The Silpakorn journal Vol. 42 No. 2 (March-April).

LAURA JUNKER 1999 Raiding, Trading and Feasting: the Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

H.J. MORWOOD, F. AZIZ, P. O'SULLIVAN, NASRUDIN, D.R. HOBBS, A. RAZA 1999. Archaeological and Palaeontogical Research in Central Flores, Indonesia: Results of Fieldwork 1997-98.Antiquity 73 (280): 273-86

K. NGUYEN LONG 1999. Old Champa Kiln Sites and Wares: Binh Dinh, Vietnam. Part 2, Decorative Forms and a Selection of Binh Dinh Wares. Arts of Asia 29 (1): 84-92.

NANCY TAYLES. 1999. Khok Phanom Di, Volume 5: The People. Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries, London.

Khok Phanom Di is a prehistoric site located in Central Thailand. An excavation there in 1985 removed cultural material from a 10x10 m square to a depth of almost seven metres. The previous four volumes in this series have reported on the excavation, the environment, biological remains and aspects of material culture of the site. The excavation area included part of a cemetery, representing a sample of interments over perhaps 500 years. This volume describes the morphology and evidence for health of the people buried in the 154 graves exposed. The burials were virtuals were virtually undisturbed so the skeletons, which were the primary source of information, were in superb condition and almost all complete. The bone was also extremely well preserved. The early chapters in this volume report on the census and demography of the cemetery sample. The extraordinary preservation of the skeletons provided a wealth of data on body size and shape, growth and growth disruption, dental and skeletal health and disease. Environmental and biological data from preious volumes have been combined with the skeletal and dental evidence in the development of a synthesis of the role of diet and nutrition, infectious diseases and parasites, and patterns of physical activity in determining the quality of life of the people of Khok Phanom Di. The previous volumes have detailed evidence for a major environmental change during the period of use of the cemetery; the consequences of this change for the health and survival of the population are discussed.

PITTAYA DARMDEN-NGARM 1999. Ancient Dams in Thailand. The Silpakorn Journal Vol. 42 No. 4 (March-April).